CELEP Documents (page 24)
Mobility is critical for economic & social development
We, the Coalition of European Lobbies on Eastern African Pastoralism, believe that livestock mobility is critical for the economic prosperity and sustainable long-term development of Eastern Africa’s drylands. Therefore, we argue that policies and laws should be developed and implemented that enable and protect livestock mobility both within and between countries in the region. These […]
Pastoralists’ access to and management of natural resources
We, the “Coalition of European Lobbies on Eastern African Pastoralism”, believe that access to natural resources such as land, water, pastures and forests is of key importance to pastoralism. Pastoralists need to have control over and access to land and water in order to maintain their livelihoods and maximise their productivity. National and regional laws […]
CELEP update August 2014
From August 2014 onwards, the current activities of CELEP are briefly compiled in “CELEP Updates”. The first issue (CELEP Update 1) gives an overview of ongoing advocacy activities, reports on what is happening with respect to preparing policy briefs and the annual general meeting (to be held in September 2014 in Aachen) and an overview […]
CELEP core-group meeting April 2014
On 22–24 April, the CELEP core group of eight people from Europe and Eastern Africa met in Brussels to work further on issues defined in the action plan formulated during the annual meeting in Rome six months before. The group mapped the outreach of the CELEP network and decided to produce an updated CELEP who’s-who […]
Meat & greens: CELEP response to The Economist
In response to an article in The Economist of 18 January 2014, entitled “Meat and greens”, which depicted pastoralism as an inefficient production system and a major source of greenhouse-gas emissions (http://www.economist.com/news/international/21594348-lot-can-be-done-make-meat-eating-less-bad-planet-meat-and-greens), a spontaneously formed team within CELEP formulated the following letter to The Editor: SIR –Though your article on the subject of livestock […]